Trump tells Norway he no longer feels obligation to think only of peace  —  U.S. President Donald Trump has told Norway's prime minister in a letter that he no longer feels obligated “to think purely of Peace” because he had not been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and he repeated his demand for control of Greenland.

Josh Shapiro Writes That Harris Team Asked if He Had Ever Been an Israeli Agent  —  In his new memoir, the Pennsylvania governor suggests that when Kamala Harris's team vetted him to be her running mate, aides focused on Israel to an extent he found offensive.

Putin invited to join Trump's ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza, Kremlin says  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin has been invited to join US President Donald Trump's “Board of Peace,” the committee that will oversee the reconstruction of Gaza, his spokesman said on Monday.

Lawyers allege Dept. of Homeland Security is denying legal counsel to Minnesota detainees  —  Detainees are being held at the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis.  —  Federal officers stand outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building during a protest on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026, in Minneapolis.

‘60 Minutes’ Airs Delayed ‘Inside CECOT’ Story: Trump Officials Still “Declined Our Requests” For Interviews, Correspondent Says  —  A 60 Minutes segment on CECOT prison, the infamous El Salvadoran facility where the Trump administration sent deportees last year, aired on Sunday …

In Minneapolis, a Pattern of Misconduct Toward Protesters  —  Legal and criminal justice experts said a ruling by a federal judge last week revealed conduct by immigration agents that evokes the civil rights era.  —  A protester detained, her bra removed and wedding ring cut off, and some of her clothes never returned.

Trump administration backs labor secretary facing misconduct probe  —  Lori Chavez-DeRemer is also accused of having an affair with a staffer and drinking in her office during the workday.  —  The Trump administration is rallying around Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer …

‘No longer in my hands’: How Hill Republicans stopped caring about DOJ releasing the Epstein files … “I don't give a rip about Epstein,” Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) said last week when she was asked to take stock of the month since the Dec. 19 deadline.  —  “Like, there's so many other things we need to be working on,” she added.

Trump Aide Ditches Lawsuit Without Handing Over Tax Returns  —  CHOKE POINT  —  MAGA mastermind Chris LaCivita hired Hunter Biden's lawyer to sue the Beast unsuccessfully.  —  Donald Trump's 2024 campaign manager ditched his lawsuit against the Daily Beast without handing over “discovery” documents, including his tax returns.

China's economy grows 5% in 2025, buoyed by strong exports despite Trump's tariffs  —  China's economy expanded at a 5% annual pace in 2025, buoyed by strong exports despite U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs.  However, growth slowed to a 4.5% rate in the last quarter of the year, the government said Monday.

Zero Chucks Left to Give  —  Chuck Schumer now sees a path back to the majority.  Can he manage his way through it?  —  ∙ Paid  —  IT IS NEVER FUN TO BE out of power.  And no Democrat has felt that more acutely this past year than Chuck Schumer.  —  Democratic voters have pointed …

FBI opened probe on Minneapolis shooting; none exists now, Justice Dept. says  —  Trump administration officials have pushed to investigate Renée Good's partner, not the officer who shot her.  —  In the immediate aftermath of the death of Renée Good in Minneapolis …

Trump's long-awaited healthcare “plan” is a joke  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  💊 Subscribe to PN 💊  —  “In two weeks” finally arrived.  —  That's the usual time period in which President Trump has, for the last 10 years …

Big Business Should End Its Faustian Bargain With Trump  —  When Donald Trump returned to power, America's billionaires and the leaders of its biggest corporations rushed to prostrate themselves at his feet.  Some of them, especially but not only among the tech bros, did so because they themselves wanted …

1/19/26 ☀️ AM: … In an interview between high-level meetings, Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin summed it up this way: “Give us a chance to give [Trump] a way out of this that comes to the right ending.” … Durbin was giving a sobering assessment of Congress as a supposedly coequal branch of government.